Sometimes you wanted to change the Hostname on a Linux machine like on your Ubuntu PC or a Fedora machine or any other Linux distro like a Citrix XenServer to somewhat relevant to the service running on a server or say you have some slogan of yours that you want to put as a Hostname … Read more
A software repository is a database of software packages stored on a remote server. Generally, these packages are retrieved using a package manager in the local machine. Linux comes preconfigured with some repositories that allow us to and install the updates or packages officially released by that distribution. Sometimes you may need to … Read more
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an image format mainly used to create animations. This format holds multiple pictures at once and when loaded in a certain way, it creates a video-like feeling. Nowadays it is a popular way to share funny animations or short clips on the internet and is also used in web publishing. … Read more
A process is an instance of a computer program that is currently running. A program can have multiple instances created when it starts executing which means more than one process can be associated with that program. Multitasking is the method by which these processes share the system resources. Whenever we execute a command on terminal … Read more
Different Linux distribution comes with different tools to manage software packages on it. Debian and its derivative use the apt package manager to install and remove packages from a system. You can use aptitude or synaptic to manage software packages from GUI. Linux distributions such as Ubuntu provide software center from where you can install … Read more
Gparted (also known as GNOME partition editor) is a free partitioning tool. This is a GUI application that uses GNU parted in the backend. Gparted is used to create, delete, or resize a partition without data loss. Apart from this, it offers many other functionalities such as mirroring one partition with others. By using Gparted … Read more
Backup of a computer system is very important as it can prevent you from data loss in case of system failure. The possible causes of a system failure are disk failure, corruption of the filesystem, human errors, etc. There are various backup and recovery tools for Linux some of them can be used from the … Read more
Software Package A software package is an archive file of compiled and built source code with necessary metadata for its deployment. The metadata of the package consist of dependencies, package version, and about the software. For example – the .deb packaging is used for Debian based Linux Distributions while .rpm packaging is used in Red Hat, … Read more
GNOME is a free and opensource desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. It is a -friendly desktop environment and comes default in various distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc. GNOME 3 is the latest version of the GNOME desktop. There are various desktop environments that are the fork of GNOME for example MATE is … Read more
Grub Grub is a bootloader that is used to manage the multiple operating systems installed on a computer. A boot loader is the first program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system’s kernel. The GNU GRUB is derived from the GRand Unified Bootloader, which … Read more
The apt-fast is a shell script wrapper for apt-get and aptitude that can drastically improve the ing speed of a package in the Debian based systems. It s packages in parallel with multiple connections per package. the apt-fast utility uses aria2 or axel accelerator to different parts of a package simultaneously. Sometimes a … Read more
Xfce is a free and opensource desktop environment that aims to be lightweight, fast, and low on system resources while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Like GNOME, Xfce is also based on the GTK toolkit. It uses the Xfwm window manager. Adhering to the standards defined on freedesktop.org is a priority of … Read more